Policing & Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Policing & Society is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Crime and deviance in the colleges- elite student excess and sexual abuse28
‘We need to use the entire toolbox’ storytelling in the unarmed Norwegian police23
Coercive control and risk in intimate partner violence: are Canadian police prepared to assess?19
Policing as social control: police officer perspectives on the policing of queer people in Kenya18
Involving citizens in urgent missing person cases. An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour within District Criminal Investigations Teams18
Policing suspicion: proactive policing in London, 1780–185018
Institutional racism, inclusivity and colour-blindness in the Finnish police18
Law enforcement and public health: partners for community safety and wellbeing17
Weapons present, police absent? An analysis of police behaviour during 2020–2021 left- and right-wing demonstrations16
Public support for expanding DNA databases: police empowerment and the normative and instrumental models of police legitimacy in South Korea15
Queering police legitimacy theories: (dis)trust, context, and visibility15
Intersectional inequalities in trust in the police in England15
‘Everything seems to be pushed onto the businesses’: stakeholder perceptions of the policing of business crime in Staffordshire, United Kingdom15
Police misconduct hearings as legitimacy dialogues14
Correction13
Police deployment in armed conflict: a typology and multi-case application13
Cultural scripts of risk consciousness: police practices in high-risk offender management programs13
Stories from small museums13
LGBTQ+ officers in US federal service: an examination of workplace inclusion and experiencing sex-based discrimination12
Policing the neighbourhood with social media: a comparative study of resident’s digital vigilantism in high-income neighbourhoods12
What do we know about police leadership? A review of the current status of police leadership research and practice, with suggestions for future research directions10
Gender and policing in the UK: historical perspectives on 50 years of equality legislation9
Comparative Policing9
The ‘police progression paradox’? Why are women under-represented across the middle ranks of the police?9
Unpacking the Blue Box: structure, control and education in policing8
How Children's Advocacy Centers law enforcement officers cope with work-related stress: impacts and approaches to self-care8
Sex workers’ confidence in the police in one Canadian city under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act8
Protest policing and public perceptions of police. Evidence from a natural experiment in Germany8
Misconduct by private security officers and trust in the police: evidence from a natural experiment in Sweden8
Occupational identity and police officers’ social relations in Ibadan City, Nigeria7
Why democratic police reform mostly fails and sometimes succeeds: police reform and low state capacity, authoritarianism and neo-patrimonial politics (in the former Soviet Union)7
A multi-faceted approach to analyzing historical police logs: a research note7
From Liberators to Lutys: homemade firearms, right-wing extremism, and the challenge to policing7
Sexual and violent police perpetrators: the institutional response to reporting victims7
Aiding or enabling? Officer perspectives on harm reduction and support services in an open-air drug market7
‘Don’t talk to them!’ on the promise and the pitfalls of liaison policing at COP267
Nexus between police attitudes and responses to domestic and family violence in Australia: does training matter?7
Neighbourhood policing6
Explaining confidence in the police within transitional Hong Kong: the influence of postmaterial values6
Investigating honour-based abuse and other crimes in South Asian communities: the benefits, limitations and impacts of ‘ethnic matching’ and ethnic ‘difference’ of police officers6
Problem-oriented policing in England and Wales: barriers and facilitators6
Safety, privacy, or both: evaluating citizens’ perspectives around artificial intelligence use by police forces6
‘The ones in red:’ people who use drugs’ experiences of the Janus-faced nature of police volunteerism6
Searching for a needle in a haystack? An exploratory study into the policing of ‘needle spiking’ in the UK6
Chief police officers’ stories of legitimacy6
Guardian versus warrior cops: predicting officers’ support for procedural justice and coercive policing6
It's all about time: the influence of behaviour and timelines on suspect disclosure during investigative interviews6
The potential of automated classification to categorise police force tweeting behaviours: leading the way to large scale analysis6
Polycentric governance, epistocracy and the limits of policing knowledge in preparing for the climate crisis6
‘They stand there looking really bored and pissed off': analysing efficient police resourcing at football matches in England and Wales5
The birth of an organisational field: the institutionalisation of civilian crisis response services in the de-tasking era5
Doing gender and professional identity: inclusion and exclusion of female civilians in criminal investigations5
Caseloads, culture, and capacity: rethinking investigative policing5
A.C.A … All Coppers Are … an analysis of police legitimacy in Spain5
Participant accounts of police violence during black lives matter protests in Chicago5
Executive spectacle policing: protest, immigration, and lessons from the performance of state power in the Trump era5
Public perception of algorithmic policing in a non-democratic context: evidence from Kazakhstan5
Institutional distrust trap: an analysis of the effect of public distrust in the Nigeria Police Force5
Knowledge, practice and professional identity: unthreading the challenges of contemporary police tutoring arrangements in England and Wales5
The ‘haves and have-nots’ of social support during police recruitment: why the playing field is anything but level5
‘We believe our police are careful not to unduly harass you ladies and gentlemen’ – an examination of the relationship between the police of Cheshire and the motoring public, 1896–19394
Globalizing local policing: an ethnography of change and concern among Danish detectives4
Urban disorder in democratic transitions: Ukraine’s municipal policing debates in comparative perspective4
Forgotten, outdated, and absent: PSNI officer’s training, experiences, and confidence with Autism4
Globalisation and policing in Tuvalu: perspectives on negotiating changing power structures4
Policing is not for me: repelling factors implicated in vocational choice elimination4
The inevitable fallibility of policing4
Police sergeants and disaster management during Australia’s Black Summer bushfire crisis4
Health harms, climate harms and the regenerative potential of policing4
Institutions, political attitudes or personal values? A multilevel investigation into the origins of police legitimacy in Europe4
Rural decline and policing of cannabis legalisation in Washington4
Policing child sexual exploitation and abuse cases: a qualitative PRIORITY study of the challenges faced by law enforcement officers in Germany, Portugal, and Sweden4
Prevalence and patterns of domestic abuse victimisation in an English police workforce4
Exposure to citizen incivility, perceived public disrespect, and police stress: evidence from front-line officers in South Korea4
Revisiting police legitimacy: exploring determinants beyond performance, procedural justice, public satisfaction, and its practices4
Attitudes and views regarding law enforcement activity at large outdoor raves in Israel: a cross-sectional survey4
Community-based policing of natural disasters in Vietnam: analysing the ‘four-on-the-spot’ model4
Detectives and technological frames: integrating technology and social media into everyday work4
The analysis of excessive disciplinary action and the effect of disciplinary rationalization policy: an empirical analysis of the results of disciplinary appeals reviews for police officers4
Intersectional injustices: police responses to migrant, Black and minoritised victim-survivors of rape and other sexual offences in England and Wales4
Police legitimacy and culture revisited through the lens of self-legitimacy4
Police innovation and institutional entrepreneurs: the emergence of police drug diversion schemes in England and Wales4
Colonial policing practices in Queensland and their contemporary legacies3
r/ProtectandServe: an exploration of the virtual canteen culture regarding police misconduct3
Visible policing: uniforms and the (re)construction of police occupational identity3
Apathy, resistance, and disengagement: A social media analysis exploring anti-police sentiment through motivational postures3
Improving police investigation of intimate partner sexual violence: challenges and opportunities3
Collaboration, risk and ‘just’ outcomes: challenges and opportunities in policing HBA3
Policing futures: transforming the evidence-based policing paradigm through interdisciplinarity and epistemological anarchism3
Dare to share: information and intelligence sharing within the UK’s anti-money laundering regime3
Restoring trust in Mexico’s police: do officer gender and work experience matter?3
The ruling from the field stands? Shedding light on officers’ interpretations of body-worn cameras footage3
Procedural justice, neighbourhood context, and domestic violence reporting intention among subgroups of immigrants3
Revisiting the demeanour effect: a video-observational analysis of encounters between law enforcement officers and citizens in Amsterdam3
Correction3
The Blue-Coat Rebellion, the police of Galashiels have struck: the Inspector of Constabulary and a small Scottish Burgh3
Rewards, sanctions, and trust in the police: evidence from field and survey experiments in Colombia3
Better safe than sorry? Police officers’ identification of and responses to vulnerable crime victims3
Normalisation of crisis communication in post-crisis times: examining the Facebook page of Hong Kong police force during and after radical protests3
From evasion to retaliation: exploring the motivations behind assaults on police3
Examining police perceptions of challenges in policing adolescents: a comparative analysis across rank, role, and tenure3
Enhancing missing persons search strategies through technological touchpoints3
A crisis of legitimacy?: The importance of procedural justice in frontline private security provision3
Impression management following investigation and prosecution scandal in Norwegian police: a review of press releases3
‘Giving the right service to different people’: revisiting police legitimacy in the Covid-19 era3
Police department websites and digital language accessibility: a platform for achieving effective communication between limited English proficient communities and the police3
Body-worn camera videos and public perceptions of police: an experiment on positive video exposure and community-police relations3
Investigative private policing beyond the police: an exploratory study3
Getting back to the state: policing the Covid-19 pandemic2
‘A genuine one usually sticks out a mile’: policing coercive control in England and Wales2
Factors associated with encounter-specific police procedural justice perceptions among Dutch detainees2
Turning it on and off: a behavioural and situational comparison of non-fatal violence perpetrated by on- versus off-duty police officers2
An ethnographic multi-order and notice analysis of the policing practices associated with civil preventive orders and notices2
Values? Camera? Action! An ethnography of an AI camera system used by the Netherlands Police2
Drawing a line: boundary work in victim support police work2
Speeding and deterrence: A comparative analysis of police officer enforcement and camera-based systems2
Algorithmic policing: an exploratory study of the algorithmically mediated construction of individual risk in a UK police force2
Predict and surveil: data, discretion, and the future of policing2
Doing discretion – authority, ambiguity and control in German traffic stops2
Exploring police occupational subcultures within Latin America through an atypical case2
Correction2
Algorithmic policing accountability: eight sociotechnical challenges2
Policing Nigerian elections: violence, institutional weaknesses and remedial trajectories2
‘No one wants to end up on YouTube’: sousveillance and ‘cop-baiting’ in Canadian policing2
What service should police provide? Towards a minimum policing standard2
United Kingdom-European Union policing and law enforcement cooperation in the post-Brexit era2
Move-on powers and practices of social exclusion: an examination of governance2
Post-election riots and the dilemmas of democratic policing: recent experience in the United States and Brazil2
‘Strands in a cable’: effective investigator decision-making using forensic identification evidence in volume crime investigations2
Legitimacy and cooperation with the police: examining empirical relationship using data from Africa2
A complete turnaround: police and gay men 1950–20102
The invention of urgency: the transformation of the police role in society’s response to mental illness, 1900–19702
Police officers as filmmakers: the cinematography of body worn cameras2
Specialist policing units as a pathway towards procedural justice for domestic abuse victims2
Policing rape: the way forward1
The ‘civilizing effect’ and ‘deterrence spectrum’ revisited: results of a national study of body-worn cameras on fatal police force1
Spy plane: inside Baltimore’s surveillance experiment1
Reforming police education in Iceland: a comparative analysis of students’ competence valuations before and after the transition to university education1
Coercive rehabilitation and therapeutic control: how the police navigate the penal-welfare nexus in Chinese drug governance1
Police victims of domestic abuse: barriers to reporting victimisation1
Politicians and police in the face of democratic change in Chile and Colombia1
Foreword, Comparative Policing Review1
Therapeutic alignments: examining police and public health/harm reduction partnerships1
Adaptive policing for a climate crisis1
Low self-control and the blue wall: exploring police attitudes on breaking the code of silence1
Nocturnal policing: a study of public, private and voluntary policing in the night-time economy1
I was having an anxiety attack and they pepper sprayed me' : police apprehension in mental health contexts in Australia1
A study of police personnel wellbeing in England and Wales whilst working during the Covid-19 pandemic1
Policing technology-facilitated abuse1
Criminal justice responses to domestic violence and abuse in England: an analysis of case attrition and inequalities using police data1
Youth’s contacts with private security guards: compulsive and assistive encounters1
Attempts to teach ethics to police leaders and managers at the Police College: a lesson from history1
Announcement1
Identity fracture: a social identity theory analysis of police whistleblower narratives in England and Wales1
Can harm be predicted? On the development and validation of a statistical model for predicting harm in missing person incidents1
More than words: English as an additional language in police recruitment and promotion processes1
Unmasking police accountability: responses to Australian First Nations peoples’ deaths in police custody1
Public support for empowering police during the COVID-19 crisis: evidence from London1
Advancing our understanding of immigrants’ trust in police: the role of ethnicity, immigrant generational status and measurement1
Pre-deployment police officer perceptions of body-worn cameras in Brazil1
Public confidence in the police: using opinion survey data to explore the current ‘moment’ in British policing1
First they came for the Young Communists: police facilitation and control at COP26, Glasgow1
Does prior misconduct predict drug use by police?1
Using Public Spaces Protection Orders to put the brakes on car cruising1
The vigilant citizen. Everyday policing and insecurity in Miami The vigilant citizen. Everyday policing and insecurity in Miami , by T. Jeursen, New York, NYU Press, 2021
The coproduction work of healthcare professionals in police custody: destabilising the care-custody paradox1
The politics of police governance: Scottish police reform, localism and epistocracy1
Policing suicide: investigative officers’ views on criminalisation and enforcement of anti-suicide laws1
Exploring the relationship between shared identity and interoperability: a mixed methods analysis of discussion-based multi-agency emergency response exercises1
Norwegian police officers withholding fire in armed confrontations: a tale of situational awareness1
Policemen, COVID-19, and police culture: navigating the pandemic with colleagues, the public, and family1
‘Setting benchmarks and breaking chains’: public opinions of female police officers1
Introduction1
Police, non-state actors, and political legitimacy in Central America1
Resistance to work against sexual harassment within the police1
Police-related deaths in the United States1
The merits and risks of body-worn camera footage in domestic and family violence incidents and legal proceedings: a study of police perceptions and experiences1
The official history of criminal justice in England and Wales: Volume V: policing post-war Britain: plus ça change1
Mediated public perceptions of police encampment clearances in Canada and France: a cross-national study1
Why the police should be trained by Black people1
Police officers’ perceptions of citizens and support for procedural justice policing: the mediating roles of identity and self-legitimacy1
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